Martha+Byzynski

On August 11, 1923, 26-year-old Martha Byzynski died at Chicago's St. Mary's Hospital from an abortion performed that day.

The coroner named Jane Worchowski as the person responsible. Worchowski's profession is given as [|nurse or midwife].

Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see [|Abortion in the 1920s].

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 * [|Homicide in Chicago Interactive]

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